On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 09:25, Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote: > > > On 7/10/19 4:09 PM, Thomas Oulevey wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > Thanks for your questions. > > > > Inline my feedback. > > > > On 10.07.19 22:57, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> > >> 1. What are the policies that EPEL would need to change? > > > > EPEL is shipping only latest build in their repo. We can't build > > against older packages. Another issue is that koji doesn't allow that > > either. The intermediate repo metadata only contains latest builds and > > it is not configurable as far as I remember. > > > >> 2. What are the parts of EPEL that are a moving target compared to > >> the continuous release method of CentOS? > > > > We can build packages and stick to them for a whole lifecycle of a SIG > > project release for both "Requires:" and "Buildrequires:". > > > > I am sure there are other concerns that can be discussed by the pkgs > > maintainers. > > > > Would it be possible to permit some SIGs to opt into EPEL if they desire? > > Or to put another way: > > The EPEL project has a Special Interest in EL packages. While this > isn't a CentOS SIG, it is a Group. Existing CentOS SIGs are able to opt > into depending on CentOS SIGs. Would permitting SIGs to opt into > depending on EPEL be much different? > > It might require us to be a CentOS SIG also (which I don't currently see a problem with) and also have a way to make those packages available to the koji in way which doesn't break builders. [AKA some sort of local mirror which allows for keeping old copies of rpms.] > Pat > > -- > Pat Riehecky > > Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > www.fnal.gov > www.scientificlinux.org > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190711/b74f415a/attachment-0008.html>